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Politics : A US National Health Care System?

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To: skinowski who wrote (9928)	10/1/2009 6:42:10 AM
From: Road Walker	1 Recommendation Read Replies (1) of 42652

Must be a while since you were a kid.... :) Feels like centuries. Let's just say I liked Ike. In many specialties doctors still make a good living, but unless something changes, being an Internist or Family doc is gradually becoming a thing of the past. My Dad was a GP and a surgeon. Made hospital rounds in the morning, came home and took a nap and office hours in the afternoon/evening and would get home about 7:30; staying open late for working people. Worked with his brother who had the opposite schedule so always one of them at the office and the hospital. He made house calls if he had to and often had to leave in the middle of the night for an emergency. They ALWAYS had Wednesday off... do Docs still do that? We got tons of gifts from patients at Christmas... many from people he had treated for years for free because they were too poor to pay. He worked until he was 75 and was still doing surgery... the other doctors got together and said "sorry, we can't let you do surgery anymore you are too old". He retired and died of a heart attack two weeks later. He lived for his work. Is specialization costing the system more or less money?

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